More people claim their indigenous ancestry

Brazilian indigenous people are now living in a demographic boom. The Brazilian Socioenvironmental Institute recently reported that in the last ten years the indigenous people in Brazil has grown from 250.000 to 600.000, not due to an unexpected explosion in birth rates, but rather through a desire of individuals to be recognized as belonging to the indio culture: indeed, for the first time many people have run to the civil registers in order to claim their indigenous ancestry. Brazilian indios are today divided in 225 groups.